{"title":"Ernst Cassirer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErnst Cassirer's\u003c\/strong\u003e works delve into the complexities of human knowledge and the symbolic nature of experience. His writings explore the ways in which language, myth, art, and science shape our understanding of the world, offering profound insights into the philosophy of symbolic forms and the nature of human cognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy \u0026amp; Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e will find his texts thought-provoking and foundational, bridging abstract theory with cultural analysis. Cassirer's books provide a rigorous examination of knowledge, meaning, and education, inviting reflection on how we construct reality through symbols.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"an-essay-on-man-by-ernst-cassirer-9780300254075","title":"An Essay on Man","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man’s cultural achievements. \u003ci\u003eAn Essay on Man\u003c\/i\u003e is an original synthesis of contemporary knowledge, a unique interpretation of the intellectual crisis of our time, and a brilliant vindication of man’s ability to resolve human problems by the courageous use of his mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a new introduction, Peter E. Gordon situates the book among Cassirer’s greater body of work, and looks at why his “hymn to humanity in an inhuman age” still resonates with readers today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe best-balanced and most mature expression of [Cassirer’s] thought.”—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo reader of this book can fail to be struck by the grandeur of its program or by the sensitive humanism of the author.”—Ernest Nagel, \u003ci\u003eThe Humanist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA rare work of philosophy and a rare work of art.”—\u003ci\u003eTomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000538906860,"sku":"9780300254075","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24538493482294.jpg?v=1763282435"},{"product_id":"the-problem-of-knowledge-by-ernst-cassirer-9780300010985","title":"The Problem of Knowledge","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Problem of Knowledge\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable work where Cassirer employs his notable gift of lucidity to explain the major ideas and intellectual issues that emerged in the course of nineteenth-century scientific and historical thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe translators have done an excellent job in reproducing his clarity in English. There is no better place for an intelligent reader to discover, with a minimum of technical language, what was truly happening during the great intellectual movement between the age of Newton and our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000809734380,"sku":"9780300010985","price":71.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22107593482294.jpg?v=1763306546"},{"product_id":"the-philosophy-of-symbolic-forms-by-ernst-cassirer-9780300074338","title":"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt his death in 1945, the influential German philosopher Ernst Cassirer left manuscripts for the fourth and final volume of his magnum opus, \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Symbolic Forms\u003c\/i\u003e. John Michael Krois and Donald Phillip Verene have edited these writings and translated them into English for the first time, bringing to completion Cassirer's major treatment of the concept of symbolic form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErnst Cassirer believed that all the forms of representation that human beings use—language, myth, art, religion, history, science—are symbolic, and the concept of symbolic forms was the basis of his thinking on these subjects. In this volume, which contains one text written in 1928 and another in about 1940, Cassirer presents the metaphysics that is implicit in his epistemology and phenomenology of culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe earlier text grounds the philosopher's conception of symbolic forms on a notion of human nature that makes a general distinction between Geist (mind) and life. 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Promoting a philosophical vision informed by Kant, it incorporates the philosophical advances achieved in the nineteenth century by German Idealism and Neo-Kantianism, whilst acknowledging the contributions made by his contemporary phenomenologists. It also encompasses empirical and historical research on culture and the most contemporary work on myth, linguistics and psychopathology. As such, it ranks in philosophical importance along with other major works of the twentieth century, such as Edmund Husserl’s \u003ci\u003eLogical Investigations\u003c\/i\u003e, Martin Heidegger’s \u003ci\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s \u003ci\u003eTractatus Logico-Philosophicus\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first volume, Cassirer explores the symbolic form of language. Already recognized by thinkers in the tradition of German Idealism, such as Wilhelm von Humboldt, language is the primary medium by which we interact with others and form a common world. As Cassirer emphasizes in the famous Davos Debate with Heidegger, 'there is one objective human world, in which a bridge is built from individual to individual. That I find in the primal phenomenon of language.' The famous \u003ci\u003etrias\u003c\/i\u003e Cassirer discerns in the functioning of language – the functions of expression (\u003ci\u003eAusdruck\u003c\/i\u003e), presentation (\u003ci\u003eDarstellung\u003c\/i\u003e), and signification (\u003ci\u003eBedeutung\u003c\/i\u003e) – has become paradigmatic for accounts of language, philosophical, linguistic, and anthropological alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSebastian Luft, Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University, USA.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new translation makes Cassirer’s seminal work available to a new generation of scholars. Each volume includes a translator’s introduction by Steve G. Lofts, a foreword by Peter E. 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